Friday, November 16, 2007
Reason #7,857 to Subscribe to NRD [Stephen Spruiell]
The new issue is out today. This is from Ross Douthat's review of Lions for Lambs, "Robert Redford’s hilariously awful drama about the War on Terror":
[Meryl] Streep’s reporter confines herself to lecturing [Tom Cruise's hawkish Republican senator] about how you can’t “kill people to help people,” and explaining that this is just Vietnam all over again. “Equivocation is defeat!” he brays; she asks him if he’s ever heard of The Who, and adds, in case we aren’t clear on the point, “Meet the new boss, same as the old boss.” (I’m not kidding: She really says this.) It’s like watching Sean Hannity debate Jane Fonda after they both spent the whole day together sniffing glue.
11/16 12:38 PM
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